Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins…

Innit wicked that the wife said "open the door thyself"?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wife · What happens: say, open · To what, where: door · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1100 «Grimm's Tales, The Wind's Gift, part 6: the poor man wins back his sack and ram, and his rich brother buys them» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wicked	compound
2	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wife	det
5	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wicked	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
8	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 door	det
10	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 open	obj
11	thyself	thyself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch	8 open	obl:unmarked
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 open	punct
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the wife						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open in a quote	infinitive		the door				thyself obl:unmarked	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

yeah, she was well cheeky, fair play to the henchmen for sorting her.

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheeky	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheeky	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cheeky	advmod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 play	punct
8	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 play	amod
9	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheeky	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 henchmen	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 henchmen	det
12	henchmen	henchman	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 play	nmod
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	14 sorting	mark
14	sorting	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 play	acl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sorting	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cheeky, well property	tree rules
2	sort	gerund	fair play to the henchmen not said here	her = she					vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she was well cheeky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheeky	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheeky	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cheeky	advmod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cheeky, well property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, she was well cheeky and she was giving him the silent treatment

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cheeky	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheeky	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 cheeky	advmod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 giving	cc
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 giving	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 giving	aux
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cheeky	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 giving	iobj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 treatment	det
13	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 treatment	amod
14	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					cheeky, well property	tree rules
2	give	past · progressive	she	the silent treatment	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient treatment=Theme

Option 4

yeah, she was dead rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 rude	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 rude	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rude	amod
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					rude property	tree rules

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